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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Simple 4-patch baby quilt

Sometimes when a baby shower comes around, I do actually have time to whip up a baby quilt, and it helps when I have parts lying around waiting to be used - like these cowboy themed 4-patches from a long-ago baby quilt...

Plus a bunch of leftover 5 1/2 " squares...

Sort of a mess...

Fun to play around... try to put some order to the chaos...

I've had a nice piece of this red paisley around for ages ....

Even when I think "I'll just whip up a simple baby quilt", it still seems to take me about two full quilting days to manage it - of course this includes interruptions like switching laundry and feeding my people;).

the back:

And.... did you spot my glaring mistake?

A missing 4-patch - doh! Oh well.... not tragic... right? But wow, how did I miss that?!

"Zoe" below, watched me as I machine quilted hanging diamonds, and meandered in the little border... in my mind baby quilts were made to be machine quilted for hard use and 1000 washings in hot water!!